Calendar



R. J. NEWMAN Jan. 24, 1956 CALENDAR Filed March 4, 1953 RICHARD J NEWMANINVENTOR.

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United States Patent CALENDAR Richard J. Newman, East Orange, N. J.Application March 4, 1953, Serial No. 340,339 1 Claim. (CI. 40-122) Thisinvention relates to calendars and more particularly to desk calendars.An object of the present invention is to provide a desk calendar whichembodies means for acquainting the user of definite recurring dates suchas birthdays, anniversaries, etc. More specifically, the calendar of thepresent invention combines, among other features, a holder fordisposable sheets indicating the dates and days of the week, or month,as desired and means disposed in proximity to the disposable sheets forholding remembrance sheets carrying indicia indicating the month anddays or weeks and days as desired upon which sheets may be enteredsuitable notations to indicate recurring important dates such asbirthdays, anniversaries, etc. The remembrance sheets are enclosed,being visible through a transparent covering and are rotated inexhibited position in accordance with the month or week.

Another novel feature or object of the present invention is theprovision of disposal day and date indicating sheets, which whenindicating the days of a week and their dates carries along one edgethereof recurring indications of the days of the week, with specialindication of this week properly located to indicate the weekprominently displayed on the disposal sheet and also to provide cutawaydisposal sheets carrying only indication of the days of that weekoccurring at the end of any month so that the days of the same weekoccurring in the succeeding month are displayed on the successivedisposal sheet.

With these and other objects in view, as may appear from theaccompanying specification, the invention consists of various featuresof construction and combination of parts, which will be first describedin connection with the accompanying drawings, showing a calendar of apreferred form embodying the invention, and the features forming theinvention will be specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved calendar.

Figure 2 is an edge elevation of the improved calendar.

Figure 3 is a cross section Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating the manner ofcutting away the disposal sheets so as to expose succeeding days of asucceeding month on the successive disposal sheet.

Figure 5 is a detail fragmentary section showing a slight modificationof the calendar structure.

Referring more particularly to the drawings the improved calendarincludes a carrying-supporting body 1 which is shown in the drawings asbuilt up of connected pieces of any suitable material such as a rigidthermosetting plastic, metal or the like but it is to be understood thatthe carrying body 1 together with its supporting legs or feet 2 may becast or formed all in one piece as taken on the line 3-3 of indicated inFigure 5 of 2,731,746 Patented Jan. 24, 1956 the drawings instead ofbeing made of assembled sections.

The carrying-supporting body 1 is so constructed as to provide adepressed pocket 3 which opens out through the upper or exhibiting faceof the supporting-carrying body. This pocket 3 receives a plurality ofdisposable sheets 4 which are shown in Figure l of the drawings ashaving printed thereon at the top the month of the year and the calendarprinting for the preceding and succeeding months all as indicated at 5.The main body of the disposable sheets 4 are divided into seven sections6 each bearing suitable indica shown at 7 to indicate the day of theweek and the date. At the inner or lefthand edge of each sheet 4 is aseries of indicia indicating the days of the Weeks of the month, thatis, if a month dis played on the sheet contains four full weeks plusadditional days the indicia strip 8 carries M T W T F S SU indicationsfor the four weeks plus the additional dates. A blank strip 9 isprovided on each of the sheets 4 and this strip carries at the properposition along the strip 8 the words this week. a

The pad of disposable sheets 4 are held firmly in place in the pocket 3by an attaching tear strip 10 which engages the upper end of the topmostsheet of the pad and is attached to the supporting-carrying body 1 bysuitable bolts 11 and nuts 12. This attaching tear strip 10 has astraight inner or lower edge so that when the week indicated on theexhibited disposal sheet 4 has passed this sheet may be quickly andeasily torn from the pad.

If it is so desired, a spring 15 may be utilized in connection with thebolt 11 for firmly holding the disposable sheets 4 in place. Thisconstruction is shown in Figure 5 of the drawings wherein the bolts 11'which extend through the attaching tear strip 10' and through thedisposable sheets 4 4 of the spring 15 coiled thereon be tween the nut12' and the bottom of the supporting-carrying body 1. In this figure itwill be noted that the supporting-carrying body 1 is shown as molded orotherwise formed of a single piece of material.

In instances where the month displayed ends in the middle of the week,such as shown in Figure 4 of the drawings, the disposable sheet 4carrying or indicating the last days of the month exhibited and thefirst days of the week indicated has that portion which would normallycarry the remaining days of the week cut away as clearly shown at 16 inFigure 4 of the drawings and thus the remaining days of the weekconstituting the first days of the succeeding month are exhibited on thenext successive tear sheet. It will be noted by reference to Figure 4that the strips 8 and 9 along the inner edge of the cut away disposalsheet are not cut away in this instance so as not to disturb therelationship from the day and week indications of those strips with theweek exhibited by the two disposable sheets 4.

The supporting carrying body 1 has a second pocket 17 formed thereinextending along the entire length of the disposal sheets 4 and thispocket has its exhibiting or upper side closed by a transparent sheet18. The outer edge of the pocket 17 is open as clearly shown in Figure 3of the drawings. Memorandum strips, one corresponding to each month ofthe year are placed in the pocket 17 with the strip corresponding to themonth disposed on the exhibited disposal sheets on the top and visiblethrough the transparent cover 18. These memoranda strips 18 may beformed of relatively heavy cardboard, sheet plastic or any othermaterial which is durable so that they may be used for a number of yearsand rotated into exhibiting position to always have the memoranda stripcorresponding to the month displayed by the disposal sheets inexhibiting positions. The memoranda strips 18 carry indicia or numbersrather corre spending to the dates of the days in that month and areprovided with blank spaces alongside each number wherein may be writtenmemorandums of birthdays, anniversaries, etc. which repeat each year sothat the user of the calendar may 'by glancing at these memoranda sheetsreadily be reminded of the day and date of any such birthday,anniversary or the like.

The disposable sheets 4 rnay have spaces such as indicated at 20 thereonon which may be written memorandums of engagements or the "like for therespective day which do not recur year after year.

It will be understood that the invention is not to be limited to thespecific construction -or arrangement of parts shown, but that they maybe widely modified within the invention-defined by the claim.

What is claimed is:

In a calendar, a supporting-carrying 'body having a disposable sheetcarrying portion and a removable memorandum blank receiving pocketextending entirely along one side of said disposable sheet carryingportion, said receiving pocket having a transparent cover and having itsouter edge open to receive memorandum blanks, 'a plurality of individualmemorandum receiving blanks removably and interchangeably stacked insaid pocket, a plurality of disposable day and date indicating sheetscarried by said sheet carrying portion in stacked relationship, saidblanks "being of a length equal to the length of the disposablesheetsanddisposed in longitudinal-edgeto-edge relationship therewith, saiddisposable sheets having a series of designations of days of the weekalong the edge thereof adjacent to said pocket and date-indicatingnumbers on said memorandum blanks along their edge portions adjacent tosaid disposable sheets, said disposable sheets having indicia thereoncooperating with the days of the week indicia to indicate the specificweek the days and dates of which are indicated on the respectivedisposable sheet, said memorandum blanks and said disposable sheetshaving coacting strip portions along their adjacent edges ofsubstantially equal Width and length, certain of said disposable sheetshaving portions thereof cut away to exhibit certain predeterminedportions of the disposable wsheet therebelow, said portions so cut awayas to leave said coacting strips along their edges intact.

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